Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 55

After a while I found myself lying on my bed in my room; but how I got there, or how I got away at all from the Polytechnic professor, he may perhaps know, I don't.

Who acts: I, myself, professor · What happens: find, lie, get, get away, know, not do · To what, where: myself, bed, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, myself, professor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 found	obj
7	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 found	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 room	nmod:poss
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 got	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 got	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 got	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 know	cc
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 got	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 know	advcl
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 got	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 got	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 professor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 professor	det
30	Polytechnic	Polytechnic	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 professor	compound
31	professor	professor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 all	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 got	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 do	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
39	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 know	ccomp
40	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 do	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	I	myself		while		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme
2	lie	gerund	myself not said here		my bed		in my room	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
3	get	past	I		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	get away	past	I		all		away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	may	professor				perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not do	present	I					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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